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Name

Helen Chin

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School of Healthcare, Baines Wing, University of Leeds

Biographical details, hobbies & interests

 

My main academic and research interests’ focus upon the development and use of pragmatic research led and informed translational methodologies, which enable clinical teams to make sense of their world and build internal capacity and capability to develop and implement evidence based practice. My joint work on enabling organic approaches to practice development was adopted as a strategic model by NHS Scotland in 2006.  My PhD work aims to further knowledge in the Practice Development field by exploring the epistemic enablers and inhibitors, which impact upon developing practice within a whole systems approach. I am currently leading the knowledge implementation and transfer elements of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership, funded by the Technology Strategy Board, ESRC and the Dept. Health, which involve service user and clinical practitioner co-production methodologies to develop innovations in Mental Health employment models. With a professional background in nursing, I have over 20 years international experience of working at the interface of policy and practice across the statutory, voluntary and private healthcare sectors.  I have been the recipient of two prestigious awards for leading and influencing healthcare developments in the USA and Malaysia.  I also act as a strategic advisor on practice development implementation methodologies to UK Healthcare Trusts and is mentor to a USA healthcare executive working to improve healthcare quality through research informed implementation strategies.  I teach practice development, quality, leadership and innovation at undergraduate and post graduate levels within the School of Healthcare and is Deputy Director of Innovation and Knowledge Transfer, linking the value cycles between research, teaching and innovation.

Supervisors

Professor Dawn Freshwater, Dr Liz Walsh & Dr Jane Cahill

Research Interests

Practice development in healthcare

Workforce development

Implementation of evidence based practice and innovation

Leadership in healthcare

Education

MSc Palliative Care

Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Professional registration

Registered Nurse - NMC

Publications

 

Freshwater D, Muncey T, Chin H, Walsh E, Esterhuizen P (2011) Caring and Empowerment: Rhetoric or Reality. International Journal of Nursing Studies  - Forthcoming. 45%

*Gilmartin J, Chin H, Leonard P. (2009) Pre- admission clinics in day surgery. The ‘One Stop Shop’: Tools and methods for practice improvement and service development. Practice Development in Healthcare 8 (4) 239-252.   60%

*Chin H (2009) Practice Development as a tool to empower, refresh and renew.  Practice Development in Healthcare.  8 (2) 1-4.  100%

*Chin H & Totterdell B (2009) Practice Development in healthcare service reform. Nursing Management.  16 (1) 24-30    70%

*Chin H. (2008) Making a fresh start: Coaching and mentoring as early performance management strategies. Nursing management. 15 (2) 18-20  100%

*Chin, H. & Hamer, S. (2006) Enabling Practice Development: An evaluation of a pilot programme to effect integrated and organic approaches to practice development within healthcare organisations. Journal of Practice Development in Healthcare. 5 (3) 126-144.           97%

*Chin, H. (2003) Achieving Change. In: Clinical Governance and Best Value: Meeting the Modernisation Agenda. Pickering &Thompson (Eds). Harcourt Publishing, London.    100%

*Chin, H. (2002) Practice Development- A Framework Towards Modernising healthcare in the UK and the USA and a Means Towards Building International Communities of Practice. Journal of Home Healthcare Management and Practice (USA), Fall Issue, September 2002.    100%

*Chin, H., McNichol, E. (2000) Practice Development Credentialing in The U.K. A Unique Framework for Providing Excellence, Accountability and Quality in Nursing and Healthcare. On- Line Journal of Issues in Nursing.   85%